Last Call: Run Away from Your Cubicle and Never Look Back, for It Is a Long Weekend

Eater: A Scottish chef tweeted a photo of him holding the severed head of a critic, after said critic panned his restaurant. If he’d had Labor Day to look forward to, maybe he would have been more relaxed.

Buzzfeed: A reporter dives deep into the lucrative, fraught world of Maine elver fishing, and the gangs, extortion, and potential environmental disaster rooted in the world’s hunger for baby eels. If only everyone had Labor Day to look forward to, maybe they wouldn’t decimate the world’s eel population.